Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?'

Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?'

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some read more

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.

We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- read more

We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- and a significant one at that. Only people who know about this contest through the radio station or the paper will be able to enter.

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: read more

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that read more

We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we could sacrifice was an average of a dollar an hour. Those employees are on the low end of the scale. They're making eight, nine dollars an hour ... so a dollar from them is a lot.

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if read more

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and read more

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.

The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.

Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up.

Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up.